Overview
- Barcelona SC confirmed Pineida’s death and Ecuador’s Interior Ministry said a special unit is handling the case.
- Police and local media report two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on Pineida, his mother and another woman in the Samanes area in daylight.
- Officers cordoned off the scene after the attackers fled, and searches for suspects are underway.
- Pineida’s mother sustained a head wound but survived and is not in life-threatening condition, according to police reports.
- Accounts differ on the identity and fate of the second woman, while the killing fits a pattern of recent attacks on footballers as Guayaquil logged about 1,900 murders from January to September 2025.